Berlin-based photographer Sven Marquardt, also known as bouncer of the famous techno club Berghain in Berlin, presents his photographs for the first time in Lebanon. The exhibition and installation will open on Thursday, March 15, at 7pm in D Beirut warehouse in Karantina. The artist will give a talk on Friday, March 16 at 7pm. Until Sunday, March 18 at 6pm the exhibition will be shown.
Sven Marquardt’s black-and-white portraits document former East Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg scene of the 1980s and the evolving techno culture after the fall of the Berlin wall until today. For the first time, Sven Marquardt’s large-scale photo exhibition “Rudel” will be shown along with the audiovisual installation “Black Box”.
“Rudel” is an exhibition that consists of large-scale portraits, which combine formal severity and clear imagery with bleak impermanence. They impress through interaction of ease, severity and the dramatic art of monochrome contrasting. The ever-changing metropolis of Berlin has shaped Marquardt’s sensibility for striking characters, his sense for the unusual in humanity and his artistic subject.
“Black Box” is an audiovisual installation, which combines Sven Marquardt’s black-and-white portraits with the rough, dark and intense techno sound of Marcel Dettmann, a German producer and DJ of the techno club Berghain. The two artists met for the first time at the legendary Ostgut club in the late 1990s but it was only in 2014 that they decided to combine their artistic talents and created Black Box.
Sven Marquardt started his photographic career in the beginning of the 1980s as a part of the emerging Punk, New Wave and Art scene in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood of East-Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall he immersed himself in the city’s rising night club scene. Soon he became a known face particularly for his work as bouncer at the famous techno club Berghain.
Event Schedule in framework of BBX Weekender
Thursday, 15/3/18
7pm - 10:30pm |
Opening in the presence of the artist |
D Beirut, Karantina |
Friday, 16/3/18
7pm |
Artist Talk with Sven Marquardt |
D Beirut Karantina |
Saturday, 17/3/18
4pm - 8pm
10pm |
Workshop "Export your music and touring in Germany" by Marcus Rüssel
Party with Berghain DJ Etapp Kyle |
Reunion, Karantina |
Sunday, 18/3/18
12:30pm - 6pm
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Closing |
D Beirut, Karantina |
The exhibition will be opened on Friday and Saturday between 4:30pm and 10:30pm and on Sunday between 12:30 and 6pm.
The event is a joint project of Goethe-Institut Libanon and The Grand Factory.
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